Friday, May 23, 2008

Of Pebbles and Rocks

So we lost it. But hey, we still got two pebbles (At least)!
Its really a pity, even the photos are not ours!
Credit goes to Singapore Memorial for the photos.....

Read here for the judgement by ICJ and here for a lawyer's take....

13 comments:

Julian said...

...and that's at low tide summor...

Anonymous said...

Anonymous,
Malaysians are too damn busy with the recent election tsunami to be bothered with a small rock. So they send a team of monkeys to argue the case. Singapore of course, argued their squatter rights. So if the landlord cannot be bothered, the squatters will ultimately win. This is a typical case, Malaysia is much closer and base on teritorial boundaries it should be part of Malaysia.

Gnasher said...

It is indeed a sad day for us to lose out to S'pore. Hope we will not lose it all...let Malaysia rise and shine again

The people's power said...

Whoever owns any of the rocks, stones or peebles, in 50 years time, the effect of global warming shall submerge all the remaining batu.

Anonymous said...

From what I saw, Singapore just sent their AG and their judge to argue their case.

A bit of shame and not to mention that Malaysian hired a top lawyer from England to argue their case in ICJ. How much is the legal fees?

What about our AG? Why do we need to hire a foreign lawyer? And our AG only goes to court to oppose bail !!

Rocky's Bru said...

Actually they are marbles, bro! Our leaders lost their marbles and now we know where they lost them!

Anonymous said...

It's not about rock or peebles, it's about the black gold which
lay under the oceans. The economic potential is still untapped.

AnakMalaysia.

nick mun said...

like how you described it. bet a couple of guys could roll them off into the waters and no one would have a clue that they were there in the first place.

btw, can you change the url for my link in your blogroll? cheers mate!

Kerajaan Rakyat said...

Perbicaraan tuntutan Pulau Batu Putih yang terletak 7.7 batu nautika dari Johor dan 25 batu nautika dari Singapura itu adalah hanya sandiwara untuk menutup kelalaian, kealpaan, kebebalan dan kedurjanaan pemimpin Melayu dan Pemangku Setiausaha Kerajaan Negeri Johor yang berkhidmat pada tahun 1953.

Aku mempunyai segala asas untuk mengatakan mereka telah dengan lalai dan relahati menyerahkan kedaulatan Pulau Batu Putih kepada Singaparu.

http://kerajaanrakyat.blogspot.com/

muststopthis said...

Rais said its a 'win, win' for both countries....
Shyte head.......how did he come to that conclusion beats the hell out of me.
Clearly, Johor Gave it away by not showing interest in it, thats my interpretation as to what the judges had to say.......Rocky is right in saying....will it happen to Iskandariah?

Anonymous said...

bodohnya orang yang tak tau strategy!

it is not about winning the Pedro Blanca. malaysia has won by denying S'pore' ambition to expand its land area and denying Malaysia of the use of the sea space between pedro blanca to Si'pore.! Singapore is not stupid. Their strategy is to win Pedro Blanca and close the sea to Malaysian ships, navy and fishermen. we should now be celebrating and thanking the ICJ for the award of the middle rock outcrop to Malaysia. instead of sulking and crying we Malaysian should sent an Armada consisting of the Navy, the Marine Policy and indicvidual yatch and fisherman to clebrate the win around middle rock and staking Malaysian. flag on both middle rock and southern ledge. Hurray Malaysia and bye-bye S'pore navy and S'pore's ambition to expand it tiny island. The stupid policeman who say we should not go to the island should be sacked. Stake our claim now!

Congratulation to the Malaysian Team.

muststopthis said...

Oops....you've stumnped me.
What strategy do you think our gov is on when they 'give away' something that was already ours to begin with?......

The People's Power said...

Wow, we spent a huge amount of money for foreign lawyers. Now we lost a rock. Next, we hire them again we lost IDR to Singapore. Slowly, we lost our sovereignty to Singapore becoz our hired and local lawyers, do not know how to argue with facts. So embarassing to Malaysians. Due to our weakness, who knows Sabah goes back to Philipines while Sarawak to Brunei.